The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-05

could be seen spots OF Dloou anu
pieces Of half burned and frozen
human flesh, and the workmen vera
still finding portions OF bodies in the
burning wreck. All the passengers |
in tho emoker but one escaped.
Mail, express and baggage were
burned, including large sums oil
money. The scene at the Chamber
lain establishment wss one calculated
to make the stoutest hearts quail.
Nine shapeiess trunks of human be-
ines we're stretched out in row like
so many charrsd masses. Those oil
Postelwaite and his two sons, side by
side, aud. seven others, none oil whom
could be RECON- zed, and near them
mass Of lash aud bones that may have
been paris OF the bodies OF dozen
different people. At the depot was
found VIM. F. Smith, Of Waynesboro,
Pa. who was passenger in the coach
next TO the sleepers. He was citing
in the front part OF the
car, and when the collision oc--
curred he YVES thrown violently against
the front door OF the car, but was not
iniured in the least. He said he did
not think there had been collision,
but that the ira n had run of the
track. He helped the ladies in the
car gather up their wraps, and SAID
when he went back to hls seat TO get
his hat he noticed the smoker IN
flames, and saw an immigrant jump
from the car through the roof and a
wall of flames. He said no one IN the
coach was hurt seriously.
One man had his hand burned
slightly by falling against the stove;
After getting ont of the car he helped
TO unoouple the two sleepers ana
push them down the track, 80 they
would not be burned. He then picked
nm the Postelwaite little girl, who was
wandering about in the snow, and
carrie d her to the depot at Republic.
w. s. Price, the baggage master,wasl
burned to crisp. His nome IL Nv
Wheeling There were, no doubt,
many more persisted in the wreck, az
the number Of persons who escaped
: and the remains recovered is not
eoual 10 the number reported In the
: car. The number actually lost may
never be known.
A number OF watches we're found IN
the wreck, and one Of them is de-
I rcribed as follows: Open face, marked
/ w. Il Co. on barrel bridge, three
b. oupcs case, Jewel me united, SprlDghelc
movement, case No. 932,O99.
4 PASSENGERS THOUGHT A SNOW BANf
! CAUSED THE DELAY.
= CHICAGO, Ill, January At wa
! expected that the survivors oil thu
. Baltimore and Ohio wreck would or
. live here this evening on the trail
which was due at 7 o'clock this morn
u ing. Up to midnight, however, onl.
one tain had arrived, and no on
o aboard of it had 30 much as heard o
. the accident. This train made wild
= detour, touching Sandusky and reach
= ing the Baltimore and Ohio tracks vi
the indianapolis, Bloomington an
. Western, considerable distance IN i
- aide Of the scene Of the dieaster, III
y paessnpets understood that the della
20 was occasioned by snow blockade l
=, the vicinity Of thin. Another trair
y which was due at 8 p. M, has not "
Il arrived.
:, TWO GENTLEMEN Missing.
- MILWAUKEE, Wis, January ar
- ate kilograms from Bellaire, o., ar
70 nounce that Grant Maneell and Gee
~ Simpson, Of this city, were on II
- train wrecked at Tfhn. As their rel
~ tiyes here can get no word from then
y, ~ 1t is believed they persisted.
ne TO DE THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED.
ID CIsuNNATI, o., January tn
es Comp,srcial Gdaette's Tiflin, o., speCii
ID reports diversity OF opinion reegarc
n ing the real cause OF the accident. In
OF reports agree that there was careless
m mesa on the part Of the rail road on
q ployes, hut whether blame should b
I'd attached to the freight or passenge
70, crew ia a matter Of conjecture. -.
ne thorough investigation will be mad
in Tho Coroner has taken charge oil IL
n dead. The Commercial GGzetteS corr
an spondent gives seventeen as the nun
n Der who were killed.
VI, THE VIVID STORY or JOHN TowHIL
'o O CHICAGO, ILL, January "A speci
h h' TO the Daily News from Tilin, {
- saws: John Towhill, passenger no
20 living at Chicago junction, YVES in II
sd smoker on the Baltimore and Oh
6s train, about three eea,s from the irol
or stove. He felt the shock when u
ia engines came together as ii no nj
"a baen struck in the back, and cav "
ot persons shoot upward nearly to Il
,o' ton of the coach. Then began he
oo;, rible crunCbing, and the baggage G
ho came into the smoker through .
10 10 end. He WAS caught between q
~ seats, and within minute IRE "
'"' raging all around him. He made
~ fearful effort and broke seat and
ou out though a window.
~ saws he saw two men cruBht
seS and heard their shrieks as t
70 flames began to pour out from =
W drv material. ToWhil's hair a
w whiskers are all burned off and
ees shoulder dislocated. The skin has
n hio slipped from his face and scalp. JoI
' H. Gates, the baggage man, was seat
uy lust in front OF TOwhill. He says
Id the first shock he was thrown upWa
.tnr by the bending OF the tlDor OF the c
''0i and saw the wheels come through
49,. floor. Toe next moment he was C
",o' ried back over the top OF the BEL
'in along with the debIie, aud passed o'
S men who were ground to pulp
"G ~ the portion OF the baggage cor viii
III ~ was Gliding into aud above the fl
W.. va of the smoker. Gates Ia terribly
az about the ankles. He got out c
- 80 window. He WAS sent to his no
t1ai at Newark.
w. 1890 A. M-One of the first n
~ ~ 10 be helped off WAS Harry j. Fon
, ,ono ter, of Cniclgo. His head was ba
i9 4e aged and left arm broken. No 500
re had he alighted from coach tina
IL ,Ti burly railroader grabbed him. J
.ASU' won nded man was hustled into
o opSs baggage room and left there, wi
l IIo' the railroad man stormed at
I uas reporters and yelled to Forre
Iu1t not to say anything to
d l1,i newspaper men. Forester mel
anu FoirIad from exhaustion, but at q